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The Spelman College English Department invites applications for a tenured position at the rank of Associate Professor with a concentration in Rhetoric/Composition to direct the Comprehensive Writing Program, beginning August 2016, job code TF0700. Candidates should be able to teach in the general education core, and in the English major and Writing minor. Directing the CWP will be a rotating position.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Rhetoric/Composition or related field with a specialization in Assessment and/or Writing across the Curriculum.

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I would like to ask you for any suggestions on how to create a wholistic writing assessment rubric for first-year university writing students. I'm intrigued by Vicki Spandel's 6-Trait Writing Assessment Methodology as outlined in "Creating Writers;" however, if possible, I would like adapt a methodology like that to my first-year university writing students who are learning argument.

At the same time, my students are working to master some of the fundamentals of edited
American English. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so much.

I'm pleased to pass along this message from the Asessment Institute leaders.--Shirley

Dear WPA Assessment Institute Participants,

We (your facilitators) look forward to working with you next week! To maximize our day together, we thought it would be helpful to do a bit of reading before the institute takes place. So we've started a blog on Wordpress (http://wpaassessment.wordpress.com) to enable us to connect.

I'm pasting in a note from the 2007 WPA Summer Workshop leaders.--Shirley

All,

There are still a few seats left for the WPA Summer Workshop (held the Sunday-Wednesday, July 8-11) before next month's conference (July 12-15). For full details please see http://www.wpacouncil.org/conference2007

Susan Miller Cochran and I have been working hard to construct a thoughtful and useful agenda -- see below.